Zeig! Heil!

This post is about the demonised Hitler and his Nazi party.

I will not dispute that Hitler was a bad man. He was an awful artist, a racist, and a nationalist. But, because he is dead, and because he was the (often uninvolved) figurehead of the Nazi party, he is methodically demonised. This is extended to the Nazi party, too, and no one puts up any defence, and even happily swallows such inaccuracies.

Any written word on the subject of the Second World War will no be saturated with words with institutionally altered meanings. "Fascism", even as an ideology, has been perpetually altered by the European governments of the first half of the 20th century; you would be surprised how many people agree with authoritarian, socio-collectivistic policy until the word "Fascism" is mentioned. "National-Socialism" also holds these pejorative connotations, when the 25-Point Agenda tipped the balance heavily onto Nationalism, and in which Drexler was not in power of his created Nazi party.

Bearing the inevitable connotations in mind: Hitler is a symbol of all evil in the west. The Pink Swastika is a criticism of Nazism by calling Hitler and his cabinet gay, and investigating a link between Islam and the Nazis (then blaming homosexuality for all evil in the world). Evidently, they don't seem to see the irony. Most of the accusations of Hitler's sexual deviancy are based on biased evidence: That Hitler was a Urophile comes from Otto Strasser, a political opponent of Hitler; that Hitler was gay is taken from a convicted fraudster.

On the Subject, the Annotated Pink Swastika (http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/8706/) is a fantastic read if you'd like a laugh.

Take A.J.P. Taylor's Origins of the Second World War. While Hitler is not unaccountable for the war to the extent proposed, the lack of previous research (and the outcry following the book) shows how society can have a near-unanimous opinion on something they perceive as true, which is in fact either inaccurate or false.

The reason is the basis of the argument of "Reductio ad Hitlerum", or Godwin's law. You can't use analogy to the Nazis to "win", because it doesn't work like that. Think about what you know, and try to avoid sacrificing reason to the changeling of "public opinion", because it does not imply validity.

S/Cooke